Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register.
She was amused by his talk, which was simple, straightforward, rather humorous and keen, and interspersed with homely expressions of a style which is sometimes called slang.
Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe or slang, like unto an out~thrust tongue.
A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
First use appears c. 1756, meaning "special vocabulary of tramps or thieves", origin unknown. Not believed to be connected with language or lingo. Possibly derived from a North Germanic source, then p...
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